BOXING hero Oliver McCall returns to the ring on the age of 59, THIRTY YEARS after knocking the legendary Lennox Lewis out.

Former heavyweight world champion McCall can be dealing with 54-year-old Stacy Frazier tonight in Nashville.

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And will probably be an formally sanctioned skilled combat between the 2 boxing veterans in Tennessee.

The combat takes place simply 4 days after the controversial bout between the ageing Mike Tyson and Jake Paul.

Tyson, 58, returned to the ring towards a a lot youthful Paul, 27, and the heavyweight legend was defeated by the YouTuber by way of unanimous determination on the AT&T Stadium in Texas.

The combat obtained immense criticism as Iron Mike’s superior age and ring rust had been each uncovered.

However that hasn’t stopped McCall getting again within the ring regardless of being OLDER than Tyson.

The American picked up a well-known victory over Lewis in 1994 as he knocked the British-Canadian star out and have become WBC heavyweight champion.

The Atomic Bull at present holds a formidable document of 59 wins and solely 14 losses in 75 fights.

However some followers weren’t too happy about his return to the ring after the frustration they witnessed between Tyson and Paul.

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One boxing fanatic tweeted: “Jake Paul will combat the winner.”

One other commented: “What the hell is occurring to the game??”

And that one wrote: “Such a disgrace all this.”

Paul vs Tyson surprising punch stats

THE punch stats from Mike Tyson’s defeat to Jake Paul made for “unhappy” studying.

Veteran Iron Mike, 58, began strongly sufficient in his Netflix boxing combat with the previous YouTuber.

However he merely ran out of gasoline inside the first couple of minutes of the eight-round contest.

Within the 16 minutes of motion, the previous undisputed heavyweight world champion landed simply 18 punches – averaging simply 2.25 profitable hits per spherical.

In whole, he solely tried 97, that means he made contact with simply 18 per cent.

By comparability, Paul, 27, threw a whopping 278 punches – almost 200 greater than his ageing opponent – however nonetheless solely landed 78 for successful charge of 28 per cent regardless of his opponent barely shifting.

His most explosive spherical got here within the third when the victorious Downside Youngster tried 44 punches and linked with 16 of them.

Nonetheless, a woeful fifth spherical noticed simply 4 punches landed between the pair because the high quality didn’t dwell as much as the hype and Paul refused to go for the knockout.